Marilynn Richtarik (Professor of English, Professor of English, Geo

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Getting to Good Friday

Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland

Beschreibung

Getting to Good Friday uses literary texts by writers with connections to Northern Ireland, including Brian Friel, Deirdre Madden, and Colum McCann to illustrate peace process developments in the lead up to the Good Friday Agreement, arguing that creative writers were both responding to contemporary events and trying to influence them.

Autor

Marilynn Richtarik was educated at Harvard University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in American History and Literature, and at Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Her previous books include Acting Between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980-1984 (1994), Stewart Parker: A Life (2012), and an edition of Stewart Parker's novel Hopdance (2017). Richtarik is currently a Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where she teaches British, Irish, and world literature. She spent the first half of 2017 researching and teaching at Queen's University Belfast as a US Fulbright Scholar.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780192886408
• ISBN-10: 0192886401
• Artikelnr.: 65189176